Valentine is currently available in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, Irish, Dutch and Russian.
A 15th language, Latin, is in progress. How did we find these translators? We are lucky enough to have friends around the world who volunteered when we put out a call via Twitter and Facebook. I think the fancy term for this is “crowdsourcing”.
We would love to add more languages, especially Hindi, Urdu and Arabic so if you are a native speaker of these languages (or any other!) and would be interested in translating the comic on a monthly basis, please get in touch with us. We split all net sales from a language edition with the translator of that language.
Valentine está actualmente disponible en doce idiomas: inglés, francés, italiano, portugués, español, alemán, hebreo, chino, japonés, polaco, serbio e irlandés.
Se está trabajando en un decimotercer idioma, el danés. ¿Cómo encontramos a estos traductores? Simplemente tenemos la suerte de contar con amigos alrededor del mundo que se presentaron voluntarios cuando hicimos un llamamiento por Twitter y Facebook. Creo que el termino molón para esto es “crowdsourcing”.
Nos encantaría añadir más idiomas, especialmente ruso, hindú y árabe, así que si eres hablante nativo de estos idiomas (¡o cualquier otro!) y estarías interesado en traducir el cómic mes a mes, por favor ponte en contacto con nosotras. Repartiremos el beneficio neto de la edición en un idioma con el traductor correspondiente.
Esta web también tiene una funcionalidad multiidioma para que las entradas estén disponibles en chino, alemán, español, francés, italiano, portugués, japonés y polaco. Pero no tenemos un ejército de traductores para hacerlo; sólo somos dos chicas de América. Así que si comentas con una traducción de la entrada en cualquiera de los ocho idiomas mencionados, ¡la añadiremos como la versión “oficial” para que esa entrada esté disponible en ese idioma! Usamos el fabuloso plug-in qTranslate, y según esté disponible en más idiomas los añadiremos también.
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Do you need more help with Spanish? Translating all posts would be a little boring ;D but I would find very exciting to do an official comic translation, even though I think it’s a huge responsability.
Best regards and good luck with your endeavor.
Hi Serandel – Comic artist Felipe Sobreiro (www.sobreiro.com ) is doing our Spanish translation but thank you so much for offering! If Felipe ever gets too busy with his art to continue translating, I will let you know. Meanwhile, thanks for doing the post translation. – Alex
Hi Alex, Am I still that far behind on all the rest, that I’m singled out as “in progress”?
Note to self: work faster, Flemish boy!
–nout
Nout – haha, I’ve been so busy lettering comics I forgot to correct that! Thanks for pointing it out. We do have Russian now, too – soon….
You’re welcome, Alex. Best of luck!
Are you interested in a translating it into Latin? I am a Latin teacher and would be willing to work on a translation.
Have you thought of having translated into Latin? There a students who would be willing to read this in Latin. I am a Latin teacher and am willing to translate it.
Funny you should mention that! We had always joked we would do a Latin version someday, as we thought students would enjoy reading it around their Martial and their Virgil… email me at the address you can find here: http://www.alexdecampi.com
Hello, Polish is mentioned as one of the languages, but Polish version is not available for download. Do you need a help with translation or this is just a matter of time? For now, I have got the English version to see how it looks on my ereader. I like the idea, keep going!
Hi Pawel – funny you should mention that! The Polish version should be up for eReader by tomorrow
Hi.
I can translate it for you to the slovakian language, and find you somebody for czech language.
Awesome! Can you email me at the address found at http://www.alexdecampi.com?